Chapter XCVII. *to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania.*(*a*)(*a*) Act of February 19, 1831, chap. 28
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Chap. XCVII.— An Act *to provide for holding circuit courts at Williamsport in the western district of Pennsylvania.*(*a*)(*a*) Act of February 19, 1831, chap. 28.March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That so much of Acts vesting circuit powers in district court at Williamsport repealed. Circuit courts, when to be held.any act or acts of Congress as vest in the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania holding its sessions at Williamsport the power and jurisdiction of a circuit court be, and the same is hereby repealed: and there shall hereafter be circuit courts held at Williamsport on the third Mondays of June and the third Mondays of September in each year by the associate justice of the Supreme Court who now is or shall hereafter be allotted to the circuit in which said district is situated and the district judge of the western district of Pennsylvania; either of whom shall constitute a quorum; which circuit court and the judges thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as other circuit courts and the judges thereof, and the said district court and the judge thereof shall have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction as the district courts and the judges thereof, in the other circuits.
Proceedings, cognizable in a circuit court, now pending in the dist. court, transferred. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all actions, suits, prosecutions, causes, pleas, process and other proceedings, relative to any cause, civil or criminal, (which might have been brought, and could have been originally cognizable in a circuit court) now pending in or returnable to the said district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania held at Williamsport, acting as a circuit court on the first day of April next shall be and are hereby declared to be, respectively transferred, returnable and continued to the said circuit court constituted by this act to be holden at Williamsport within the said district; and shall be heard, tried and determined therein, in the same manner as if originally brought, entered, prosecuted or had, in such circuit court.
And the said circuit court shall be governed by the same laws and regulations as apply to the other circuit courts of the United States; and the clerk of the said court shall perform the same duties and shall be entitled to receive the same fees and emoluments, which are by law established for the clerks of the other circuit courts of the United States. Approved, March 3, 1843.